Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic: fission. Wilson, who has won backing to create a company to realize his vision, explains why he's so excited about his innovative design...

There’s a growing movement to make nuclear power safer, more efficient and less weapons-prone by replacing today’s uranium fuel with another element, thorium. And within the thorium push, there are different technological ideas for how to deploy. One camp says that the best way to optimize...

The Norwegian Conservative Party (Høyre) and Progress Party (FrP) suggest the world should have access to Norwegian thorium - a substance that can make nuclear power a little less dangerous and fight against climate change. Norway has one of the greatest unused thorium resources in the world....

Nuclear power plants generate power less expensively than wind or solar power plants. Nuclear power plants are safer than other power plants. There's plenty of uranium and thorium for civilization's foreseeable future. People are overly fearful of radiation. There's really not much waste; the...

Writing in the latest issue of Environmental Science & Technology, NASA scientists Pushker A. Kharecha and James E. Hansen report that nuclear energy leads to fewer pollution-related deaths and greenhouse gas emissions compared with fossil-fuel sources: In the aftermath of the March 2011...

This was an April Fool's joke. Do not take it seriously. Apr. 1, 2013, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — In an unexpected and unprecedented move 58 year old Saudi billionaire Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal (Arabic: الوليد بن طلال بن عبد العزيز آل سعود‎) announced he will fund liquid luoride thorium reactor...

Katie became interested in the topic for a Science Fair project and then decided to continue and expand a bit by making some videos on the subject. The following videos are a fun and educational introduction to nuclear energy and the LFTR Next Gen design option. Part 1 presents an introduction...

We built and ran prototype Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR) a form of molten salt reactor during the 60's. We have built LFTRs before. Alvin Weinberg the man who invented and held the patents for our existing light water reactors (LWR) spent the rest of his career advocating the use of...

Deccan Herald from India reports former president of India, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam in support of Thorium energy development as a means to achieve energy independence for India. Addressing the gathering at JSS College of Arts, Science and Commerce, he said that India had 17 per cent of the worlds...

The purpose of the Namibia Institute for Thorium Energy is strictly to conduct advanced research and development of the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) and Thorium technology for the eventual development and construction of an energy-based Thorium Power Plant in Namibia that could supply...